This week’s extract is taken from Graham Day’s book: Security in the Digital World. This must-have guide features simple explanations, examples and advice to help you become security-aware in a developing digital world. Find out more: https://www.itgovernance.co.uk/shop/product/security-in-the-digital-world…

This week, we discuss the use of cryptocurrency mining software on numerous government websites, a phishing scam that robbed Bee Token investors of $1 million and cyber attacks on the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics

This week, we discuss the Australian government's loss of thousands of classified documents, DCMS Secretary of State Matt Hancock's buggy new app and the growing trend of cybercriminals using cryptocurrency miners.

This week, we discuss Norton's new Cyber Security Insights Report, the inevitability of a category one cyber attack on the UK, unofficial PDFs of Fire and Fury spreading malware, and further fallout from the Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities

This week, we discuss a £400,000 ICO fine for Carphone Warehouse, an unfortunate prize from Taiwan's Criminal Investigations Bureau, a $650,000 FTC settlement for VTech and the highlights of this month's Patch Tuesday.

This week, we discuss a data breach affecting 1.7 million Imgur users, the 2.7 million UK victims of the Uber breach, a major security flaw in macOS High Sierra, and a new investment in data security from the NHS.

This week, we discuss Uber's cover-up of a 2016 breach that compromised 57 million drivers' and customers' personal information, the theft of almost $31 million worth of USDT and more than €100,000 worth of Bitcoin, and good news for victims of Western Union transfer scams.

This week, we discuss a vulnerability that's caused $280 million of cryptocurrency Ethereum to be frozen, the cost of NotPetya to AP Moller-Maersk, the data breach at law firm Appleby, and the former Yahoo and Equifax CEOs grilling by Senators.

This week, we discuss Hilton's settlement following breaches in 2014 and 2015, an important WordPress update that fixes a SQL injection vulnerability, and a new phone service to help small organisations prepare for the GDPR.

This week, we discuss the WPA2 protocol's susceptibility to attack, claims that Iran subjected the UK's parliamentary email system to a brute-force attack, breaches at pizza vendors, and an alleged security slip-up at Microsoft that exposed a database of unfixed vulnerabilities.

This week, we discuss a prankster’s email conversation with Amber Rudd, the ongoing effects of the NotPetya malware pandemic, the arrest of WannaCry sinkholer Marcus Hutchins by the FBI, and the launch of a data protection bill to implement the GDPR in the UK

This week, we discuss a vulnerability that could allow attackers to turn your Amazon Echo into a wiretap, a new strain of the Svpeng mobile banking malware and the hacking of a digital billboard to display right-wing messages.

This week, we discuss the arrest of a well-meaning Hungarian teenager, vulnerabilities in Internet-connected car washes that could cause them to physically attack users, and data breaches at Italy's biggest bank.

Christopher Wright, author of 'Fundamentals of Information Risk Management Auditing', sits down with us and talks about his book. Buy this book here: https://www.itgovernance.co.uk/shop/product/fundamentals-of-information-risk-management-auditing

This week, we discuss the use of the EternalBlue exploit to distribute new payloads after WannaCry, a vulnerability that will give access to network credentials via locked computers, and news that there will be 350,000 cyber security job vacancies by 2022.

This week, we discuss a £150,000 fine for Basildon Borough Council, a data breach affecting a Lithuanian cosmetic surgery clinic, and news that the recent WannaCry ransomware attack may not have spread via Windows XP.

Brian Honan, author of 'ISO27001 in a Windows Environment', sits down with us and talks about his book. Buy this book here: https://www.itgovernance.co.uk/shop/product/iso27001-in-a-windows-environment-third-edition

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